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Yup, still of the view that we’re going to struggle to hold an American World Cup + Olympics over the next few years…

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Watching Trump try to intimidate California (world's 4th largest economy, huge net donor to DC) raises an inevitable question. What if CA, and New England, and the mid-Atlantic, (and TX, for that matter) decided they could succeed just fine on their own? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 hours ago • 32 comments

It’s increasingly looking like a tax on extreme wealth should become one of the primary policy levers of our age. Otherwise…

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RIP Sly

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

There are not many completely perfect records, nor musicians that assuredly embody their time. He made a lot of the former & brilliantly did the latter. And it all endures

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

One of the lushest, richest, deepest songs of all time.

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RIP Sly - thanks for everything www.youtube.com/watch?v=7czr...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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Oh sh*t, Sly Stone’s just died! Good for him for surpassing so many of his peers and making it to 82. What a remarkable collection of music and symbolism to leave behind. #RIPSlyStone

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Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of providing an Internet radio broadcast from one of these CSET meetings (in London). Although I wasn’t directly part of the conversations on the tables, I was great to be involved in another way. Looking forward to getting into these reports.

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Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it: "These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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‘Amid a lot of the hope that’s being poured into these technologies, we run the risk of losing the fundamental fact that the role of technology should always be helping people live in worlds that they want to live in.’ @gaiamarcus.bsky.social talks to the FT: www.ft.com/content/c572...

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Super excited to be speaking this year at #HCID2025, an event that has long been one of my favourite conferences. You’ll find me giving a talk called ‘Battling Monsters for Credit’ (lol)…

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

Questions about AI’s energy usage raises bigger issues about our ability to address climate change. "If we can’t work out how to handle this, we won’t be able to handle broader electrification of the economy, and the climate risks we face will increase." www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Preparing a conference presentation outline where the talk will be centring around a Gramsci quote. Definitely a first for me. Intrigued to see how the talk unfolds.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again - @coldwarsteve.bsky.social is a Hogarth of our times.

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Think how incredibly broken and deranged western mainstream news has become that 90% of people have no idea this is happening.

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

Back on the radio in 30 mins. Tonight, the Nighthawks take you on an exploration into Brazilian reggae. It’ll be an education for me as much as a delight to play tonight’s selections. Join John and myself at the diner counter on ttns.uk from 23:00 (BST). #InternetRadio

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As the columnist rightly said, where is the fury about this man’s obvious and profound decline in his faculties?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Very good

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

clear, depressing set of observations from @randomwalker.bsky.social - "The decline of reading-for-pleasure (due to video) and reading-for-information (due to AI) will accelerate each other, as reading text without an intermediary will come to be seen as a chore."

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

This is a pretty staggering read, even if you already have a good understanding of the environmental costs of Generative AI. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

One President (further) deteriorates, rapidly and publicly, particularly now he’s off the jail hook, while the media focus on another one no longer in power. America’s tended to swing back like a pendulum in its history, but it’ll take an extraordinary set of circumstances to recover from this.

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As a technologist with a grounding in the humanities, this piece very much chimes with me in terms of the breadth of perspectives we need for tackling our current moment of fragility on this Earth.

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